I've been an #Emacs user for a long time because it's just what I got used to. I had no particular loyalty to it.
The more I dig into org-mode though, the more I see it as its killer feature though. This alone is enough to keep me from ever switching to another editor.
Please note: if you like another editor better, that's perfectly fine. Use what works for you. For the love of God, I'm not trying to spark an Emacs vs. vim flame war.
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Since we broke the pens out of storage, Katy's been taking up calligraphy. She's rather good at it too.
Anyhow, I cautioned her against using cheap paper with a #FountainPen because I've found it to be an unpleasant experience. Despite this, she's using a notepad from the dollar store. As it turns out, the paper is surprisingly good quality. No feathering or bleed through whatsoever.
Colour me impressed.
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@Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧📰🌱☕ IMHO, mastodon.social is a perfectly fine instance for someone just getting started on the fedi and trying to figure things out. Eventually though, I recommend finding a smaller instance more suited to one's individual preferences.
If you're just sticking with a big server, you've kind of missed out on the whole point of the fedi.
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@Seven ✨🍂✨ For me, it's part practical, part just because it's cool. I have ADHD and sometimes my brain runs faster than my hand can write. I tend to type notes, but I don't always have a keyboard handy.
I also like being able to write notes without having someone read over my shoulder... unless of course they happen to be a British journalist, which is unlikely in Canada.
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ngl, I don't get it. It feels to me more like an understanding that buoyancy is a function of mass over volume, but maybe it makes more sense if you understand something specific about it (like what it's actually floating on? Seems like a strange material. Some sort of plastic? Thin material that could break?) Not quite sure what the hubris part is exactly.
Though, that said, there is indeed a 0% chance that any existing safety regulations standard would allow this.
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My #ADHD moment of the day:
Eat a snack specifically because I have a medication that needs to be taken with food.
Forget to actually take the medication.
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Is there an easy way to collaboratively work with org-mode files (especially from mobile devices)?
Note: I said easy. It can't involve git.
@mms :runbsd: :emacs: I like this idea, but I can't get Emacs on my partner's iPhone.
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Giving qutebrowser another go as my default browser.
Now I just have to remember how in the hell to use it.
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@Judy Anderson Yeah, I've been looking into a continuous glucose monitor. They need to be changed every two weeks or so (which is a definite improvement). The ones currently on the market need to be synced with your phone using a proprietary app that doubtless feeds all that information into a corporate cloud where they do God knows what with it.
There are apparently standalone readers that can be air gapped, but my local pharmacy doesn't carry them.
@ajroach42 Might a Robert Smalls biopic be an idea, for when you're able to / if someone else picks it up? (See thread.)
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@André Machado :debian: Great article, though the history is a tiny bit off, for example: SDF was created by Ted Uhlemann. smj was involved from the very early days, and eventually did take over as head honcho (though he's been more behind the scenes of late).
All the stuff about SDF as it is today is pretty accurate though.
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Hi everyone. My wife and I are trying to raise money again to hopefully get us out of the cycle of perpetually borrowing against our paychecks and from friends and also to get things like groceries, gas, and my wife’s medication.
My wife had a rough transitional period between jobs after leaving a job that wasn’t paying them properly (i.e. they went an entire month without pay) which is what got us to this spot of constantly borrowing money and owing it back to people as well as taking advances from their paychecks.
We’re hoping to raise roughly $600 as that is what my wife has estimated will help us out of this mess. I’m a full time student so I don’t make very much money myself, so anything helps. We currently have no money for groceries or gas.
You can send money to help us with the following information:
Cashapp: Bxnshy
Venmo: Bxnshy
PayPal: payment@rubymayvalentine.net
I also have Zelle which would be a preferred option if you also have Zelle and are willing to DM me to exchange numbers so that you can send funds through Zelle since there are no platform fees associated with it.
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Oh God,
I'm back on the Goulet Pens web site.
I'm normally pretty non-materialistic, but this never ends well for my wallet.
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Is there a large #FountainPens community on the fedi?
Anyhow, I have a dedicated blue #Lamy Sarafi that I used to use for my #BaystateBlue ink, because it's notorious for permanently staining everything it comes into contact with. A while ago, I accidentally let ink dry out in this pen, and I haven't been able to get the feed flowing properly since. I've cleaned the pen several times and left everything soaking in water for several hours on a few occasions. I've also tried changing the nib. Eventually, I just emptied it, cleaned it out, and left it sitting on a shelf for a while.
I recently pulled it out again, cleaned it once more, and inked it up. Same problem. I'm going to leave it sit inked for a bit to see if maybe capillary action will eventually set in, but if this doesn't resolve the issue is there anything else I can try? I can always replace the pen, but I'd rather not if it can be avoided.
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vinegar is pretty safe in general and you can always dilute it. I think the safari has a plastic feed, too.
if it were me I would use a little dishsoap and an old toothbrush first and try to get into the feed's nooks and crannies. if the suds turn blue, it's working
So my sister is confident that she can fix the bag mentioned in this post. Dropping it off with her. In the meantime, I've had to distill its contents into the absolute essentials and transfer them into a smaller bag for the day.
It's weird, but it'll do for now.
I've known I have #ADHD since I was first diagnosed in high school, but sometimes I wonder if perhaps I might be somewhere on the #autism spectrum as well. Let me explain a thing that's going on right now to illustrate what I mean.I have a canvas messenger bag. I've had it for years and love it. I keep my whole life organized in this bag. Everything has a place and I know exactly where everything is. Recently, one of the snaps that holds it closed gave out. Within a couple of days the second one went as well, so the bag just falls open, which is fine if I keep it upright, but is kind of a pain in the ass.
The place I got it from essentially has a lifetime guarantee. I'm sure I can trade it in for another "equivalent" bag, but I'm sure they won't have this exact one since it's been several years since I bought it. This causes me an enormous amount of anxiety, because the new bag will be different, and I won't just instinctively know where all its contents are (because the configuration of the internal pockets will likely be at least a little different). It's not just the act of replacing the bag, but knowing that it'll mess me up for weeks afterward too.
I feel like this dilemma could possibly be explained by ADHD alone, but I kind of wonder...
Does this resonate with anyone in the #ActuallyAutistic crowd? I am of course not looking for a formal diagnosis or anything. It's more of a curiosity.
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Just got it back. Holy shit! You'd never know anything had ever been wrong with it. One of the snaps is a little stiff, but that's a problem that will solve itself in time.
I have the greatest sister ever!
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I love living so close to a major Oktoberfest venue. For the past 10 minutes or so, someone's been screaming at someone else, over what specifically, I don't know. I can only make out bits and pieces.
My favourite was "you can't talk like that to me!" My friend, I don't know who said what to you, but I think you've waived your right to complain about that at this point.
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Busted out my old fountain pens and ink from storage. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed them, but was subject to the eternal curse of the fountain pen enthusiast.
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Another question in the "is it just #ADHD or is there some #ASD in there too" series:
I've recently learned that some people with autism have a tendency to repeat back phrases verbatim when people talk to them before answering.
I do not think this happens to me (at least not with words I hear) but I do have a tendency to do this with written text, stuff on billboards when we're driving, that sort of thing.
I have no idea why I do this. It's not like it's everything I see either. It's just sort of a compulsion that occasionally strikes for no apparent reason. Is that a thing that makes sense to anyone, or is it just me? I guess I just write it off as a weird thing my mind does when it wanders.
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"“I’m here to rescue you,” said the demon.
The man peered up at him.
“Rescue?” he said.
“Yes. Why are you here?”
The man hung his head. “I spoke blasphemy against the king.”
“How did you do that?”
“I dropped a rock on my foot. Now my tongue is to be torn out.”
The dark figure nodded sympathetically.
“A priest heard you, did he?” he said.
“No. I told a priest. Such words should not go unpunished,” said the man virtuously.
We’re really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. “I think we ought to talk about this outside,” he said. “Why not come with me?”
The man pulled back and glared at him.
“You want me to run away?” he said.
“Seems a good idea, wouldn’t you say?”
The man stared into his eyes, his lips moving silently. Then he appeared to reach a decision,
“Guards!” he screamed."
— Terry Pratchett: Pyramids
I know this is meant to be humorous, but damn...
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FINALLY! Open-source LIVE CAPTIONS for your Linux desktop that run locally! No internet connection, no spyware!
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FUTO is a company that grants young developers means to build awesome tools like this one. Tools that help digital sovereignty.
All I need now is a model that will translate all the Russians in #CounterStrike for me 😁
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@_L1vY_ @libreture: The error message says that your phone and the server can't talk the same encryption algorithms.
The server only seems to allow the TLS 1.2 and 1.3 versions. TLS 1.1 and earlier do not work—which IMHO is ok nowadays.
Any chance that this is an older phone with an older OS? (Older as in older than lets say 8 years? TLS 1.2 is in use since 2008 and TLS 1.1 was deprecated in 2021. Maybe Android ≤ 7?)
Do you have more and more often similar issues with other sites?
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@_L1vY_: That's at least a possible reason. A phone from 2018 though should though be able to connect with TLS 1.2.
You can test this. If you can't connect to the first, but to the second, we've found the issue indeed.
This subdomain and port only supports TLSv1.2
tls-v1-2.badssl.com:1012/
This subdomain and port only supports TLSv1.1
tls-v1-1.badssl.com:1011/
Another more detailed way is to visit clienttest.ssllabs.com:8443/ss…
(All from security.stackexchange.com/que…)
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What website accepts only TLS 1.2 so I can verify client capability?
Is there a publicly accessible website which will only accept TLS 1.2 connections so that I can test to see if my application can successfully, securely connect to it? Background: I have an old V...Information Security Stack Exchange
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This is 100% a scam site. It's only been online for a few months, the owners are hidden, they say they're in London, but it's registered in Iceland, they have bot reviews on their home page, and they have reviews dated long before the site existed.
More than likely what they are doing is buying things from Humble Bumble and reselling them to harvest CC data, and in a few months they'll be gone.
I checked Reddit, and other people found the same stuff I did. Most people, and most "trust advisor" type websites suggest doing business there is probably not a great idea.
Just had the biggest scare of my life.
Some context is necessary. Katy works an evening shift, so we usually sleep in to 10-11AM. She also likes to sleep in absolute darkness, not a single photon in the room. To this end, we've taken drastic measures to ensure that we can have the bedroom very dark, even at noon.
This morning (and I use the term loosely) I woke up to notice that the outlet my phone charger and the nightstand lamp are plugged into was emitting a distinct orange glow. Nothing plugged into it is causing this; it's coming from the outlet itself.
I woke Katy up with an urgent sounding "ummmm". I thought we had a small electrical fire inside the outlet. I ran to the breaker box in the kitchen to throw the breaker for the outlet and grab a screwdriver so I can get into (and hopefully extinguish) the outlet.
Turned off the power and was reaching for the drawer with my screwdriver and Katy says "I think I know what it is."
Turns out, this outlet shares an electrical box with an outlet on the other side of the wall and the sun was shining on it. In the total darkness of the bedroom, the glow I was seeing was sunlight from the other side.
Anyhow, that's how the server abruptly lost power today.
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Aargh! Trying to get a continuous blood glucose monitor, but my pharmacy doesn't carry any that have a standalone reader. They all need to be paired to your phone with some proprietary app. There's no way in hell I'm forking that kind of data over to a black box that probably feeds it into some corporate cloud.
There are standalone meters on Amazon, but I doubt I can get my insurance to cover it if it's not coming from a pharmacy.
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Thought I was maybe starting to become somewhat proficient with the #soroban. Then I saw this.
At least I know how proficient it's possible to become.
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I've known I have #ADHD since I was first diagnosed in high school, but sometimes I wonder if perhaps I might be somewhere on the #autism spectrum as well. Let me explain a thing that's going on right now to illustrate what I mean.
I have a canvas messenger bag. I've had it for years and love it. I keep my whole life organized in this bag. Everything has a place and I know exactly where everything is. Recently, one of the snaps that holds it closed gave out. Within a couple of days the second one went as well, so the bag just falls open, which is fine if I keep it upright, but is kind of a pain in the ass.
The place I got it from essentially has a lifetime guarantee. I'm sure I can trade it in for another "equivalent" bag, but I'm sure they won't have this exact one since it's been several years since I bought it. This causes me an enormous amount of anxiety, because the new bag will be different, and I won't just instinctively know where all its contents are (because the configuration of the internal pockets will likely be at least a little different). It's not just the act of replacing the bag, but knowing that it'll mess me up for weeks afterward too.
I feel like this dilemma could possibly be explained by ADHD alone, but I kind of wonder...
Does this resonate with anyone in the #ActuallyAutistic crowd? I am of course not looking for a formal diagnosis or anything. It's more of a curiosity.
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@Diligent Circle 丸 Good to know. I was unaware of the other hashtag. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
As for how I identify, I guess my answer is... I don't really know. I have however learned a lot from the autistic community on the fedi, and am grateful for that regardless of my status.
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They're just tasks which reschedule themselves when you mark them DONE. I find they're good for things that I have to do on a regular cadence, although the shortest repeater that I use is monthly.
In the worst case, it probably wouldn't be too hard to write a function to duplicate a given node and hook it into org-after-todo-state-change-hook.
Repeated tasks (The Org Manual)
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •I keep not-quite fully embracing org-mode because I spend too much time outside of Emacs (e.g. on mobile devices). I probably just need to work out some scripting to dump into an inbox queue.
Plus work being absolutely inflexible about not letting work sync to anything else, though it helps enforce life boundaries. 😀